On 26-Feb-01 Russell Coker wrote: > I want to draw some diagrams of a network showing things such as "user > uploads files to an FTP server, FTP server uses rsync to push data to > web server, users download data from web server". I want to do this > will little boxes representing each machine etc. > > Years ago I used visio to do this on Windows. > > I tried Kivio (KDE visio-like program) but it doesn't allow me to > specify types of lines between objects (I want arrows to show > direction the data flows), it doesn't seem to allow labels on lines, > and is generally klunky. > > Is there a good program in Debian that allows this?
Assuming you want a "static" diagram (e.g. which simply shows the layout and sequence of events, etc) and not one which is updated dynamically from a database of user activity, then I suggest that a good way is to learn to use groff with the "pic" preprocessor. "Pic" was tailor-made for exactly this sort of thing, and is quite easy to use once you have got the hang of it. Best wishes. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 284 7749 Date: 26-Feb-01 Time: 12:56:28 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
